Skyld has officially joined Capgemini’s OMNISS initiative
This meeting at Capgemini’s Chalet, during Farnborough International Airshow marked an important milestone for the future of interoperable and sovereign mission systems.
Alongside 19 organisations spanning AI, cybersecurity, embedded software, robotics and systems engineering, Skyld signed a Letter of Interest to join the OMNISS (Open Mission Network for Interoperability, Security and Sovereignty) initiative led by Capgemini.
As autonomous platforms become increasingly software-defined and AI-driven, interoperability can no longer come at the expense of sovereignty or security. OMNISS was created to address this challenge by bringing together complementary technology leaders around a common vision: an open, modular software framework that allows command-and-control systems, autonomous platforms, sensors, AI applications and mission software to seamlessly interoperate while preserving each participant’s intellectual property and avoiding vendor lock-in.
Rather than replacing existing technologies, OMNISS aims to connect them. Members of the ecosystem will collaboratively define the technical roadmap, develop operational use cases, share expertise, contribute to interoperability standards and validate integrations through dedicated experimentation environments.
Skyld’s contribution: protecting autonomous systems’ AI itself
Within OMNISS, Skyld brings a unique and critical capability: protecting embedded artificial intelligence.
Interoperability allows autonomous systems to exchange information and operate together. But trust in those systems also depends on the integrity of the AI models making operational decisions.
As AI increasingly runs directly on edge devices (whether inside autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial robots or other embedded systems) it becomes exposed to new types of cyber AI threats. Indeed, models can be easily extracted, reverse engineered, copied or manipulated through adversarial attacks, potentially compromising both intellectual property and operational reliability.
Skyld addresses this challenge by providing a software protection layer that secures AI models not only at rest but also during execution.
By combining interoperability through OMNISS with trusted AI protection from Skyld, organisations can collaborate within an open ecosystem without sacrificing the security of the intelligence embedded in their systems.
A multidisciplinary ecosystem
The strength of OMNISS lies in the diversity of expertise brought together by its members:
- Alta Ares: AI-powered autonomous defence solutions, autonomous drones and counter-UAS technologies.
- ALTIM: Engineering services specialising in embedded software, electronics and safety-critical systems.
- ALSEAMAR: Autonomous maritime and underwater systems, naval robotics and ocean observation technologies.
- CEA-List: Applied research institute developing trusted AI, digital engineering, robotics and cyber-physical systems.
- CeTraC: FPGA and ASIC networking technologies enabling high-performance embedded communications.
- Embedded France: Industry association bringing together the French embedded systems ecosystem.
- Green Communications: Secure and resilient tactical communication solutions for demanding operational environments.
- Hi! PARIS Center: AI and data science research at the intersection of science, business and society.
- John Cockerill Defense : Advanced defence platforms, robotics and remotely operated systems.
- LEMINNOV: Edge computing, cloud-native architectures and industrial AI integration.
- MathWorks: MATLAB® and Simulink® technologies for modelling, simulation, AI development and embedded software generation.
- Secure-IC: Embedded hardware cybersecurity and semiconductor protection technologies.
- IRT System: Collaborative R&D institute focused on trusted AI, digital twins and complex systems engineering.
- TrustInSoft: Formal software verification for safety, cybersecurity and software robustness.
- Qt Group: Cross-platform software framework for embedded human-machine interfaces.
- QNX: Real-time operating systems and middleware for safety-critical automotive, aerospace and industrial applications.
- Quantyss: Technology strategy and innovation consulting supporting sovereign digital transformation.
- Wilco Engineering: Systems engineering, integration and verification for complex industrial and defence programmes.
Together, these organisations represent expertise across the entire technology stack, ranging from semiconductors and embedded software to AI, cybersecurity, communications, verification and autonomous systems.
Looking ahead
The future of autonomous systems will not depend on a single technology. It will depend on the ability of trusted technologies to work together securely.
We are excited to contribute Skyld’s expertise to the OMNISS initiative and to work alongside this outstanding ecosystem to build the next generation of interoperable, secure and sovereign mission systems.
Interested in seeing this collaboration in action? Together with Capgemini, we recently published a joint use case demonstrating how embedded AI can be protected against adversarial attacks in aerial autonomous systems
